Labour Rights
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Myanmar
Employers reduce workers’ benefits as junta requires additional daily allowance
While technically adhering to the regime’s order to supplement the daily minimum wage with an additional 1,000 kyat, employers are now limiting benefits and raising productivity quotas
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News
Yangon factory and Adidas supplier sacks nearly 30 workers for striking in demand of wage increase
The Myanmar Pou Chen garment factory singles out and fires labour union members believed to have organised a 2,000-person strike
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Beyond the Headlines: Clashes in Karen State and a cabinet reshuffle within Myanmar’s junta
Myanmar Now provides an overview of underreported developments in the country from the past week, August 15 - 22
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Japanese company in the spotlight for Myanmar expansion, poor labour practices
Honeys Holdings, one of the few foreign companies still interested in doing business in Myanmar, has a poor record on workers’ rights, say critics
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Interview
Factory workers ‘barely able to buy food’ under junta, union representative says
Salaried jobs turn into daily wage labour as working conditions deteriorate under the coup regime, the secretary general of the Coordination Committee of Trade Unions says
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